Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming
Author: | Gardner Dozois |
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St. Martin's Griffin, 2001 |
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Synopsis
When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field, including:
Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Greg Egan * Joe Haldeman * Philip Jennings * William H. Kieth * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ian McDonald * Richard McKenna * Laura Mixon * G. David Nordley * Robert Reed * Kim Stanley Robinson * Pamela Sargent * Cordwainer Smith * Bruce Sterling * John Varley * Roger Zelazny
These are the stories of the explorers and pioneers who transform their destinations in the image of their distant home--exciting tales of alien landscapes and the struggle to make them suit human desires.
Table of Contents:
- Preface - essay by Gardner Dozois
- The Big Rain - (1954) - novella by Poul Anderson
- When the People Fell - (1959) - shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
- Before Eden - (1961) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
- Hunter, Come Home - (1963) - novelette by Richard McKenna
- The Keys to December - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
- Retrograde Summer - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
- Shall We Take a Little Walk? - (1981) - novelette by Gregory Benford
- The Catharine Wheel - (1984) - novelette by Ian McDonald
- Sunken Gardens - (1984) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
- Out of Copyright - (1989) - shortstory by Charles Sheffield
- A Place with Shade - (1995) - novelette by Robert Reed
- Dawn Venus - (1995) - novelette by G. David Nordley
- For White Hill - (1995) - novella by Joe Haldeman
- The Road to Reality - (1996) - novelette by Phillip C. Jennings
- Ecopoiesis - (1997) - novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
- People Came from Earth - (1999) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
- Fossils - (1999) - novelette by William H. Keith, Jr.
- A Martian Romance - (1999) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Dream of Venus - (2000) - novelette by Pamela Sargent
- At Tide's Turning - (2001) - novelette by Laura J. Mixon
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